Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Services, University of North Dakota When it comes to mental health at school, typically the focus is on helping students, especially as they emerge from the pandemic with heightened levels of anxiety,…
Terri Levien, Washington State University and Anne P. Kim, Washington State University Misunderstandings about flu vaccines have existed for decades, leading to vaccine mistrust and lower-than-ideal vaccination rates. Now that a coronavirus…
Michael Head, University of Southampton The UK has become the first country to authorise the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for public use, with roll-out to start in the first week of 2021. This…
Deadric T. Williams, University of Tennessee and Armon Perry, University of Louisville While much of the world was sheltering in place in the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans’ undivided attention…
Wendy Whitman Cobb, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies On May 27, two American astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, are planning to launch from the…
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University Another autumn, more fires, more refugees and incinerated homes. For California, flames have become the colors of fall. Free-burning fire is the proximate provocation for the havoc,…
L. Alison Phillips, Iowa State University and Jacob Meyer, Iowa State University Group exercise is very popular: Nearly 40% of regular exercisers participate in group fitness classes. In advance of the coronavirus…
Stacy Morford, The Conversation Scientists have been warning for months that the coronavirus could be spread by aerosols – tiny respiratory droplets that people emit when they talk or sneeze and that…
Gary W. Lewandowski Jr., Monmouth University The new year is going to be better. It has to be better. Maybe you’re one of the 74% of Americans in one survey who said…
Paulo Shakarian, Arizona State University So much remains unknown about what is now being called the Sunburst hack, the cyberattack against U.S. government agencies and corporations. U.S. officials widely believe that Russian…
Mary Kate Cary, University of Virginia and Robert A. Strong, Washington and Lee University As Americans end one year and begin another, one of the most controversial topics of conversation will be…